: Food security of India depends on mustard. The study was conducted in Sonbhadra region of Uttar Pradesh to assess yield gap at farmers' field. Sonbhadra was purposively selected because of large area under the mustard system. Out of the this district blocks with maximum area under mustard system were selected. From the selected villages, 120 farmers were selected through proportionate random sampling from small (up to 2.00 hectares), medium (above 2.00–4.00 hectares) and large (more than 4.00 hectares) farmers. There is a yield gap on all the farms. The yield gap-II was more than the yield gap-I. The major constraints responsible for yield gap were late sowing/transplanting, higher prices of seed, nonavailability of fertilizer at sowing time, lack of funds with farmers and infestation of pest and disease. There is further scope to increase productivity on the farms by managing the constraints. Providing quality inputs to the farmers at right time in sufficient quantity can help in reducing yield gap. Increasing agricultural productivity or yield is critical to economic growth and development. This can be achieved by using improved agricultural technologies and management systems. Yield refers to production per unit area. Yield gap is calculated by subtracting achieved average yield from the yield potential. Understanding yield gap is very crucial for it can assist in yield predictions since yield potential shows the probable future productivity to be achieved. Also, information on determinants of yield gap can be used in policy interventions for enhancing production. In order to meet increasing demands of food due to increasing population and income, food production in India need to be increased.


By summarizing the heated points on present discussions of P. E. industrialization and by exploring its theoretical basis, and also through studying the classification of P. E. industrialization and exploritation for the market of P. E. elements, the author of this paper attempts to find other ways to put forward some reasonable proposals for the reform of P. E. industrialization.


The region study and innovation ability are the key aspects of regional economics development. The knowledge transfer ability between the main body in the learning region innovation network is the key factors. Because the request-proxy relationship between the main innovation's body exist, the problems of moral and reversion choice in the process of knowledge transfer prevent the knowledge capital function to a certain extent。In this article, with construction of Cooperation Game model, analyzed the knowledge transfer conditions and on the basis of it put forward the feasible proposals about it.


This study presented the first in a series of investigations currently underway to develop efficacious, cost-effective, and benign processing opportunities to produce rare earth elements (REE)–rich concentrate from an Australian complex low–grade saprolite ore [1.14% total rare earth oxides (TREO) grade], which is primarily exploited for its gold and copper values. This work specifically presented a preliminary flotation investigation carried out on the ore using sodium oleate as a collector. The relative effects of pulp pH, desliming, and depressants were investigated to ascertain any chance of recovering and upgrading REE minerals in saprolite ore using three different processing configurations. Based on the experimental results, flotation processes carried out on raw feed allowed the recovery of the majority of REE minerals (>50%), but the process was unselective, where clay and silicate gangue minerals reported into the flotation concentrate along with the REE minerals. However, desliming before flotation in the presence of depressants (starch and sodium silicate) improved REE minerals flotation selectivity, which produced concentrates assaying 5.87% and 4.22% TREO grades, with corresponding recoveries of 45% and 50% at pulp pH 9 and 10.5, respectively. Mineralogical analysis conducted on selected flotation concentrate indicated that silicate and clay gauge minerals were recovered via the synergistic act of surface activation and entrainment due to their fine to ultrafine nature. A comparison of all the test results revealed a haphazard grade–recovery relationship suggesting that there is an opportunity to further maximize both REE recovery and grade through further flotation studies where other process parameters may be investigated and optimized. The prospect of using magnetic separation has also been suggested.


Recently, there has been growing recognition of the significance of energy and environmental challenges. Utilization of lithium-ion batteries in electric vehicles has shown considerable potential and benefits for tackling these issues. The effective management of battery temperature has become a crucial factor in the advancement and widespread adoption of lithium-ion batteries in electric vehicles. In this study, a thermo-coupled pseudo-two-dimensional (P2D) electrochemical model is employed to simulate the heat generation of the NCM811-21700 cylindrical battery cell at various discharge rates at an ambient temperature of 25 °C, and is validated by experimental data. The validation results demonstrate that the thermo-coupled P2D model can effectively predict the battery voltage curve during the discharge process with less than 4% errors. Although there is a slightly larger error in the temperature prediction during the battery 2C and 3C discharge processes, the maximum error approaches 10%, which is still generally within an acceptable range. In addition, the battery's electrochemical and thermal characteristics during discharge are presented. The suggested thermo-coupled electrochemical model can be used for applications in the thermal management system of the NCM811-21700 battery.


After explaining why phenomenology of the alien cannot be counted among traditional philosophical disciplines, the author explores why all of European history can be read as the "shading of the alien" ( Verblendung des Fremden ), although not in the sense of mere disregarding, neglecting or denying of the alien, but disciplining it, manipulating and exploiting it. The alien has not been forgotten for centuries, it was always in the European focus, but only as an instance through which the sense of power was traditionally constructed. Following the basic presumptions of Bernhard Waldenfels' phenomenology of the alien the article presents the shading of the alien as analogous to the process of its naturalization. As if the tradition of European colonialism can be best understood in the key of maître et possesseur de'l é tranger . That is to say, the European legacy shows, in an extraordinary manner, that the alien can be transformed into a resource, from which we can appropriate and assimilate everything. A crucial insight for Waldenfels is also that strangeness is not reducible to a narrow segment of reality, whether it is culture, religion or art-based, because strangeness is a radical dimension that transcends all regions.


Beta 3-Adrenergic Receptor (β3-AR) Activation at the End of Sustained Ischemia and / or Early Reperfusion may Prove to be a Valuable Cardioprotective Strategy.


The research was aimed at showing the relationship between the gender of the CEO and the efficiency of the Polish cooperative banks. The research covered 354 banks operating in Poland in 2013-2015. Based on the conducted research, it has been shown that, for the surveyed Polish cooperative banks, women served as CEOs in significantly smaller banks than men, as the number of clients, the number of members, the total value of assets and the value of equity in male-dominated banks was on average more than double. In banks managed by women. At the same time, the results of the research clearly showed that the gender of the person acting as the chairman of the management board in a cooperative bank had an impact on the level of its financial effectiveness.


John Galsworthy, in Justice (1910), concentrates upon the practices of punishment in a British prison where lawbreakers are held punitively and especially underlines that this penal system reliant on imprisonment is far from achieving the aims of punishment like the rehabilitation of the offender and the protection of society. First, the system in question brings about inmates' mental and physical deterioration during and after custody; second, following their release, owing to their newly-acquired identity as criminals, former inmates cannot reintegrate with society and therefore tend to reoffend the law which finally causes harm to society as well as the offender himself. The argument presented within the framework of this article, to a large extent, rests on Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (1975) in which Michel Foucault interprets issues such as power and domination and deals with the evolution of Western penal systems pinpointing the flaws of these systems.


The invention discloses an UPS battery charger. The charger comprises a rectification circuit, a PFC chopper circuit and a BUCK converter, wherein the input end of the rectification circuit is coupled with alternating current input live wire (L), the output end of the rectification circuit is coupled with the input end of the PFC chopper circuit, the output end of the PFC chopper circuit is coupled with alternating current input null line (N) through bus bar, the input end of the BUCK converter is coupled with the bus bar and the output end of the BUCK converter is coupled with a rechargeablebattery. The invention also discloses a UPS with the UPS battery charger. By using the UPS battery charger and the UPS of the invention, larger charging power can be realized by using one BUCK converter, the control method is simple so as to effectively reduce the production cost, and the input voltage of the UPS battery charger is stable.


Romanian foreign trade with the free enterprise countries of Europe, the Americas, and Asia was insignificant for a long period after World War II. The main causes for this situation were the internal transformation taking place within Romania's social, economic and political structure, and the deep changes occurring in world politics and economics. Due to Romania's defeat, the lengthy presence of Soviet occupying forces, and her obligation to pay the Soviet Union in excess of $300 million in war compensation,' Romania has become a communist country whose entire economy, foreign affairs, and trade policies are molded in the Soviet pattern. The intense ideological struggle of international politics between the communist bloc and the free enterprise countries after World War II could not have had any favorable effect on the development of trade relations with Romania. The pre-war bilateral trade agreements (article Io of the Treaty of Peace between the Allied/Associated Powers and Romania)2 were reinstated by some of these countries but failed to become effective. Only in the I950's, when relations between the great powers were becoming more relaxed, did Romania begin to concentrate activity on the Western market. By this time, Romania had paid off war debts to the Soviet Union, as well as most compensation to the West for property nationalized in the late I940's. In the period I955-59, the results of trade with the free market countries were modest. There were too many domestic problems; Romania lacked hard currency, commodities demanded by the free enterprise markets, qualified trading specialists, organization in domestic industry, and an effective export plan. Thus, in this period, total exports to the Western European countries amounted to $80-9I.Io million and total imports to $51.80-65.90 million.3 By 1965, exports had risen to $266.55 million and imports to $297.57 million.4 This increase was due to the continuation of international detente, and to improvements in Romanian trade specialization and export output. Between 1967 and I972, the Romanian government adopted a series of laws which totally reorganized both production and foreign trade on a competitive basis. The most important of these legislative measures were as follows: the 1967 decree establishing the Institute for the Study of International Economic Conjuncture;5 the


A hybrid wideband amplifier having bandwidth from 5㎒ to 2000㎒ with a gain of 10db±3㏈ is designed and implemented by using a lossy matched network and GaAs FET. The implemented amplifier circuit operates as a capacitor-resistor(C-R) coupled amplifier circuit in the low frequency range (below 800 ㎒) in which │S₂₁│ for the GaAs FET is constant. It also operates as a lossless impedance matching circuit in the microwave frequency range in which S₂₁ for the GaAs FET has a slope of approximately -6㏈/octave. Using this configuration technique, Two stage GaAs FET amplifier implemented is measured to 10㏈ gain within a 3㏈ fluctuation over the frequency band from 5 to 2000㎒.


Various power augmentation systems have been studied to improve the performance of wind rotors by increasing the energy density of the wind. One of them is the ducted augmentation system. However, most of the studies of the ducted rotor concern the effect of the diffuser [1] [2] while little research has been done concerning the concentrator (nozzle). This paper analyses the effect of the concentrator and its optimum design. The effect of power augmentation is increased if (a) the position of the rotor is correctly behind the outlet of the concentrator, (b) the outlet diameter of the concentrator is smaller than the rotor diameter, and © the inlet diameter is much larger than the rotor diameter.


This study aims to explore how teachers in school-age educare describe their conditions for and work with offering learning and development support to pupils. The study is based on a web survey with both fixed and open response options. The following research questions are posed: How do teachers in school-age educare describe their conditions for working with supporting pupils? How do teachers in school-age educare describe their assignment to support pupils? And, finally, in what way can school-age educare's social pedagogical tradition be a resource when supporting pupils? The results indicate the existence of both staff and resource shortages in school-age educare centres. Despite this, the staff describes their work to include all pupils as a reorganisation of the physical and the social learning environment in the centres. The respondents report several reasons for this: flawed premises, large groups of students, untrained staff and insufficient cooperation between different staff groups. However, the respondents' answers also mention special educational elements, even if social adaptations are predominant and the after-school leisure centre's supplementary assignment to the school is primarily characterised by relational and social support for students. Finally, the answers also indicate the need for more competence and knowledge in offering optimal support to students from a compensatory perspective. These answers reveal an ongoing conflict between the leisure centre's traditional care responsibility and its newly gained educational responsibility for the leisure-centre staff.


The following case study is drawn from a Pashtun family of 31 people living together in a house in Kabul, the capital city of Afghanistan, and was collaboratively researched with a member of the household. Afghanistan has one of the world's lowest literacy rates, at 28.1 % literacy (UNICEF, 2004). Finding a way to take into consideration "the symbolic and material transactions of the everyday provide the basis for rethinking how people give meaning and ethical substance to their experiences and voices" (Giroux and Simon, 1989), rings true in the context of Afghanistan, where an ambitious agenda for raising access to education and literacy must find roots in the existing culture, coping mechanisms used by families, and the limited literacy and learning resources to which they have access. The issues brought to light in this case study suggest that validating Afghanistan's literary traditions holds potential for empowering new learners, tapping into literacy practices supported by family networks.


LHCb is one of the 4 experiments at the LHC accelerator at CERN. During the upgrade phase of the experiment (planned for 2018), several new electronic boards and Front End chips that perform the data acquisition for the experiment will be added by the different sub-detectors. These devices will need to be integrated in the Experiment Control System (ECS) that drives LHCb. Typically, they are controlled via a server running on a PC which allows the communication between the hardware and the experiment's SCADA (WinCC OA). A set of tools was developed that provide an easy integration of the control and monitoring of the devices in the ECS. The fwHw is a tool that allows the abstraction of the device's models into the ECS. Using XML files describing the structure and registers of the devices it creates the necessary model of the hardware as a data structure in the SCADA. It allows then the control and monitoring of the defined registers using their name, without the need to know the details of the hardware behind. The fwHw tool also provides the facility of defining and applying recipes named sets of configurations which can be used to easily configure the hardware according to specific needs.


In the last years, logics of polyvalences have been proposed. These are expansions that are made possible through incorporating novel truth-values such as possible, impossible, and obligatory into true false truth-values, which distinguish propositions. These concepts, which are integrated into truth and false, are known as Modality in the history of Philosophy and Logic. Therefore, polyvalences are also called Modality. As a result, modalities began to arouse interest in the field, and these terms began to take their places in new studies in philosophy and logic.


The aim of the Web 2.0 @ BU project is to investigate current good practice and to map the use of Web 2.0 technologies within Bournemouth University. This paper aims to communicate the findings from the School of Health & Social Care project team during the academic year 2007/2008 concerning the use of wikis in three distinct areas: Reviewing The Literature Wiki - A teaching session on reviewing the literature is included as a part of the Masters Research Unit - Principles of Enquiry Unit 1. This case study concerns using a wiki as a replacement for PowerPoint and as a separate study guide. LIMBIC Project Wiki - The aim of the LIMBIC project is to evaluate an inter-professional approach linking practice based learning with the principles and methods of healthcare improvement. This case study examines how an external project group wiki could be utilised to enable collaboration between non-technical healthcare users. Teamworking and Communication in Health and Social Care Unit Wiki - The purpose of this third year unit is to provide students with the opportunity to undertake interprofessional project work and, through this develop their skills of working collaboratively in teams and to communicate and function more effectively within their role. This case study looks at how effective small student group wikis are as a part of a long, thin unit where students sometimes find that they vary their contribution according to the time that they have. The paper hopes to share knowledge and experience of utilising wikis, enabling teachers and practitioners to be in a stronger position to respond and react to the changing demands of using innovative new learning technologies.


This commentary paper engages with Gillian Straker's "States of Exile and Marginalization," (this issue) in which she analyzes Tracey Moffatt's film Night Cries through a Lacanian register. In addition, it surfaces certain aspects of Moffatt's interpretation of her social world through the representational medium of her film. Tracing Straker's themes of marginality and continued trauma as exilic consequences of colonization and coloniality, it also suggests that there are generative possibilities in the multiple states of exile that occur under such conditions, where the unknowability and irresolvability of trauma and its many associated states of exile are precisely what paradoxically allow for the emergence of productive alternatives to trauma repetition.


This study investigated the compositions of volatile organic compounds(VOCs) in typical air fresheners sold on the markets.Selected air fresheners covered 15 odor types from 14 manufacturers.Headspace GC-MS analysis revealed that compositions of air fresheners were quite different even for those of the same odor type.94 VOCs were identified in the air fresheners,including 18 olefins,15 alcohols,14 aldehydes,4 ketones,5 ethers,1 phenol,25 esters and 12 other compounds.Terpenoids accounted for about 40% of the compounds detected.β-Myrcene,ocimene,limonene,phenethylalcohol,benzylacetate,β-pinene,β-phellandre,cymene,1-methy-4-(1-methyl-vinyl)benzene and linalool were found in all air fresheners.These terpenoids contained in the air fresheners,when introduced into indoor environment,might react with ozone to form secondary organic aerosols,and thus have potential impacts on indoor air quality.


There are two trends in the world of electronics reveal today: an increase of the computing power and minimize of the power consumption. The emergence of devices with high computing power and low power consumption make it possible to use the compact devices with accumulator or battery power instead of bulky devices. The developers used a variety of ways to reduce the energy consumption in order to these devices can work without charge as long as possible while maintaining its compact size. This article discusses the various ways to optimize the energy consumption devices, whose main element is a microcontroller. Reviews the program, architectural and circuit design methods to reduce consumption, consider the advantages and disadvantages, as well as the possibility of using them in combination. Fundamentally new computer architectures are mentioned, which ultimately may prove to be more effective in terms of conventional energy. The brief review of some modern microcontrollers is given finally in terms of low energy consumption.


Twelve exemplary service providers from three highly acclaimed resorts discuss and demonstrate what it takes to deliver award-winning service consistently. This research, using a qualitative, explanatory case study method, sought to investigate how they do it. Three themes emerged from the data that should have a profound impact on HRD practitioners and researchers working to improve service performance and influence organizational culture.


Before one gets into a classroom to teach, he or she needs to have acquired some basic teaching skills. Teaching in a conventional classroom seem simple, although may sometimes be difficult. However, teaching children from diverse backgrounds can be challenging. No matter the number of years of experience a teacher may have, teaching immigrant children with limited language skills and in some cases weak foundation in formal education is a challenging task. This chapter critically examines immigrant children and their education, some of the challenges that hamper their learning, and some practical skills that teachers will need to effectively teach them. Teachers need to understand the complexity and diversity of children under their care, appreciate the circumstances in which immigrant children live, make the necessary efforts to retrain or acquire some additional skills to enable them to become competent to effectively support learning of the increasing immigrant children population that continue to flood their classrooms.


Caregivers cite medical device alarms as a major annoyance in their work, but also an essential safety net that protects them and their patients from serious harm. When an alarm becomes an annoyance rather than an affordance,a it is typically because it does not provide useful information and interrupts important work. False alarms are annoying for obvious reasons, but so are alarm messages that tersely describe problems without hinting at proper ways to resolve them. Some of the newest medical devices— mainly those with large screens and plenty of computing power—are improving work life for caregivers by guiding them to resolve alarm conditions. For example, an alarm message on a therapeutic workstation might signal the presence of air bubbles in a blood-filled line and provide immediate, step-by-step instructions to remove the air from the blood and restart the therapy. The guidance might even take the form of repeatable animations. Enhanced guidance, such as animations, can take the stress out of alarm troubleshooting and improve patient care by helping caregivers fix problems quickly.


Reverse payment settlements have ignited a firestorm debate among all affected parties: consumer groups, brand-name pharmaceutical companies, generic manufacturers, pharmaceutical wholesalers and retailers, lawmakers, executive agencies, and the federal courts. The Federal Trade Commission ("FTC") has waged a decade-long battle against such private settlements of pharmaceutical patent litigation as illegal market-sharing agreements, with skirmishes among the circuits trending in favor of the settling parties until recently. The Third Circuit's recent decision in In re K-Dur Antitrust Litigation unsettled this trend, and the Supreme Court granted the FTC's petition for a writ of certiorari in a separate case on the issue on December 7, 2012.A reverse payment settlement is an agreement ending a pharmaceutical patent infringement suit under which a putative patent holder agrees to compensate an alleged infringer, typically a generic firm, to settle a patent infringement case. In exchange, the alleged infringer agrees not to challenge the patent holder's patent or sell a generic version of the drug for a stated term. Because the payment flows from the plaintiff to the defendant, it has been called a "reverse" payment.This Note argues that any standard of antitrust review for reverse payment settlements must involve an evaluation of the patent's strength at the time the patent holder and generic firm enter into a settlement. The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit is the court of competent jurisdiction to review a district court's evaluation of a patent's strength. Part I reviews reverse payment settlements generally and the statutory schemes that promote their emergence. Part II presents three approaches the circuit courts have adopted to review reverse payment settlements: per se illegality, a rebuttable presumption of illegality, and the scope of the patent test. Part III argues that any standard of antitrust scrutiny must consider the patent's strength at the time of the settlement — an approach no circuit has yet adopted — and that the Federal Circuit is the proper appellate court to review patent strength.


The COVID-19 pandemics is a global challenge with a huge impact on medicine, politics, economy, education, travel and many other aspects of human life.
 The treatment of heart rhythm disorders has also been affected by the disease itself and by restrictions in order to constrain the spread of the virus.
 Catheter ablations of cardiac arrhythmias are nowadays frequently guided by electro-anatomic mapping systems. Technical staff with medical training, or medical staff with technical training, is needed to assist the operator. Travel restrictions due to current COVID-19 pandemics have limited the in person availability for technical support staff. To overcome these limitations we explored the feasibility of remote support with an internet based communication platform.
 A total of 9 patients (87,5% male, mean age 66,6 years) with different arrhythmias (atrial fibrillation, left atrial flutter, typical right atrial flutter, left ventricular tachycardia), having undergone ablation procedures between October 2020 and February 2021, were included. Acute procedural success was obtained in 9 out of 9 procedures. No complications occurred.
 Our experience with remote support for electro-anatomic mapping for complex electrophysiological ablation procedures, show the feasibility and safety of this approach. It increases the availability of technical support at reduced costs and a reduced CO2 footprint. Remote support for electro-anatomic mapping may therefore facilitate continuous care for patients with arrhythmias during the COVID-19 pandemics. Due to its advantages beyond COVID-19 pandemics related problems, it will likely play a greater role in the future.

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P REVIOUS studies on the responses of various animals to mineral and aliphatic acids, sodium salts of mineral and fatty acids, and to alcohols have demonstrated several types of quantitative correlations between intensity of stimulation and the specific nature of the ions and molecules concerned (see Allison and Cole, 1933-34, and papers quoted therein; Sizer, 1935-36). New data have been secured from the barnacle on the sodium and potassium salts of the mineral acids and on urea, glucose, and glycerol, which have allowed: (i) comparison of stimulating effects of the salts with those of their corresponding acids; (2) description of two opposite types of responses, opening and closure, the occurrence of which depends upon the concentration of the substances used; and (3) determination that equally stimulating solutions of the strong electrolytes and of the nonelectrolytes have markedly different osmotic pressures.


The laser beam quality measurement has become a hot topic in the field of laser engineering nowadays. Based on the method of Hartmann-Shack, the four-wave lateral shearing interferometer is presented in this paper to achieve the laser beam shape parameters. The principle of shearing technology is described in detail. Parameters of semiconductor laser at 532nm and ZYGO interferometer laser are tested based on the method of four-wave lateral shearing interference and their test results are compared with the nominal parameters. As the results, the test results are basically consistent with the nominal value, which fully shows the feasibility of the four-wave lateral shearing interference method.


We present results of photoassociative spectroscopy performed on ultracold metastable argon atoms in a magneto-optical trap. Ion spectra are obtained with laser detuning up to a few gigahertz below the 4s[3/2]{sub 2}{yields}4p[5/2]{sub 3} trapping transition at 811 nm and with intensities in a range of {approx}(10{sup 2}-10{sup 5})I{sub Sat}. We also compute dipole-dipole potentials for both singly and doubly excited diatomic molecules and use a Leroy-Bernstein analysis to determine the approximate vibrational spacings in the (s+p) and (p+p) manifolds. Based on this theoretical framework, we explain a broad background feature in our data and suggest that double-excitation mechanisms are likely responsible for sharp dips in the ion signal.


Recent work has revealed that the intermediate products of long chain fatty acid synthesis in bacteria (1-4) and plants (5) are linked to a low molecular weight, heat-stable protein, which has been designated acyl carrier protein (6). A protein serving a similar function has been implicated in the biosynthesis of long chain fatty acids in animals (7). In the fatty acid-synthesizing system of Escherichia coli, intermediates and final products are linked to ACP' through a thioester bond with the prosthetic group, 4'-phosphopantetheine, which in turn is linked to the protein by a phosphodiester to a serine hydroxyl group (8, 9). Since ACP, and not coenzyme A as previously thought, serves this function in long chain fatty acid synthesis, we can ask whether it serves as an acyl carrier in reactions leading to the complex lipids as well. In this communication, evidence is presented for the participation of ACP in the acylation of glycerophosphate, the first step in the biosynthesis of phospholipids. Phospholipid synthesis can be catalyzed by crude extracts of Clostridium butyricum. From these extracts, particles were obtained by high speed centrifugation and the supernatant solution was fractionated by ammonium sulfate precipitation (see legend for Table I). In the presence of washed particles plus a soluble enzyme fraction, ACP from E. coli typically stimulated the incorporation of 'C-glycerophosphate into lipid by 3to 6-fold (Table I). Partial requirements for palmityl-CoA and the soluble enzyme fraction are also illustrated in this experiment. In order to study the effect of ACP and other components of the system on the rate of incorporation of glycerophosphate into lipid, a filter paper disk assay was utilized (14). The graphs in Fig. 1 show that incorporation is linear for at least 30 min at 25 , and that the effects observed in the experiment of Table I are indeed influences on the rate of incorporation of glycerophosphate into acid-insoluble material. For comparison, the reaction catalyzed by the complete system has also been measured in the same


Creating public housing space in Barcelona requires rethinking how its historic properties might maintain their cultural and structural vitality while serving critical social and economic needs. Drawing on programs from the United States, Europe, and China, I suggest two strategies that Catalan officials might use to effectively leverage Barcelona's historic properties to reduce its public housing deficit. The first strategy considers successful financial incentives promoting public housing in historic properties within the United States — the Low Income Housing Tax Credit and the Historic Rehabilitation Tax Credit — and proposes how the Catalan government might find seed money to fund its own historic rehabilitation tax credits. The second strategy analyzes the concept of "adaptive reuse" and suggests four adaptive reuse programs targeting lesser known historic urban assets in Barcelona: (1) historic industrial buildings; (2) adaptive reuse agreements and occupied historic buildings; (3) underutilized historic government buildings; (4) historic subterranean structures.


Naphthalene-based mesophase, supplied by Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Co., Inc., (under the commercial name "AR" mesophase) and a heat-soaked mesophase pitch were melt-spun into fiberform using a pilot-scale extruder. The oxidation conditions of the as-spun fibersformed from each mesophase were optimized (based on tensile strength), and all fibers were graphitized at 2400°C. The naphthalene-based mesophase was found to be more spinnable, despite the fact thatits viscosity was more temperature-dependent than that of the heat-soaked mesophase. Also, fibers formed from the naphthalene-based mesophase were found to stabilize more rapidly than those formed from the heatsoaked mesophase. After carbonization, the naphthalene-based mesophase fibers exhibited much higher tensile strengths and moduli than equal-sized fibers produced from heat-soaked mesophase. The naphthalene-based mesophase fibers also exhibited lower electrical resistivities. Wide angle X-ray diffraction showed that the naphthalene-based mesophase fibers developed a smaller average interplanar spacing of the graphite basal planes and a larger average crystallite size than the heat-soaked mesophase pitch-based fibers.


In a study among 81 Surinamese, members of a Dutch ethnic minority group, we found that experienced discrimination led to both fratenalistic and egoistic relative deprivation (RD). Fraternalistic RD results from a comparison between ingroup and outgroup, and egoistic RD results from a comparison between self and ingroup. In addition, we investigated two specific hypotheses. Fraternalistic RD would be more strongly related to group militancy than egoistic RD, whereas egoistic RD was hypothesized to predict personal satisfaction better than fraternalistic RD. Results, obtained by path analyses, indicated support for the hypotheses.


Recent research in Ambrosio Cave, in the southeastern corner of the Iberian Peninsula, has permitted us to establish more precisely the chronostratigraphic position of major Solutrean occupations within the late Upper Pleistocene. The calibration of a new radiocarbon date for Level IV (Upper Solutrean) and six other new dates (5 of them by AMS) for level II (Final Upper Solutrean) allows us to place these two cultural phases between Greenland Stadial (GS) 3 (end of OIS 3) and the end of Greenland Interstadial (GI) 2, with the main occupation of Level II happening after Heinrich Event (H) 2, corresponding with the interstadial that came just before the Last Glacial Maximum (GS 2). The new dates clearly modify the previously reported chronology, making the whole Ambrosio record much older than once thought. In addition, the discovery of cave wall panels decorated with engravings and paintings, covered by Upper Solutrean sediments, allows us to place the art precisely within the Middle Solutrean (Level VI), which must be placed between GI 5 and GI 3. Excavation of "the microstratigraphy sector" within Level II (Final or Evolved Upper Solutrean) has yielded 21 coupled hearth lenses (one of them with a stone feature) and thousands of very typical Solutrean flint implements, including characteristic barbed-stemmed points, shouldered points, and leaf points. Our analyses suggest that some of them may have been arrowheads propelled with bows.


A broadband phase shifter used for digital power meter is designed. The power meter with this phase shifter can be applied to the measurement of single-frequency sinusoidal AC signals in a wide range of frequency from 20Hz to 20 KHz. The error can be controlled below 1%. It has broad application prospects because of its wide measurement frequency range, high accuracy in AC signal power measurement, simple structure, and high reliability.


This study was conducted in Domini and Amansuri Lag oons in the Western Region of Ghana in January, 2011 with the aim of assessing their physico-chemic al and ecological health conditions using ecologica l indices e.g. richness and diversity of macroinverte brate fauna along environmental gradients. Lagoon ecosystems have several physiographic attributes wh ich increase their habitat heterogeneity for divers e fauna. The data is baseline for environmental monit oring assessment since the Domini Lagoon lies at a proposed site for the establishment of a petroleum gas processing facility while the Amansuri Lagoon serves as eco-tourism site. The physico-chemical fa ctors were determined using a Water Quality Checker . Benthic sediment samples were collected with an Ekm an grab, screened in the field and examined in the laboratory. Dissolved oxygen was uniformly distribu ted in Domini (around 6.0 mg/l) than Amansuri 4.76.5 mg/l; pH range at Amansuri was 5.5 ‐ 6.0 while Domini was 7.4‐7.7; turbidity range at Amansuri 15.1‐20.0 ppm and Domini was 0 to 98.3 ppm. Insects encountered belonged to the orders Diptera and Trichoptera while the worms present included Oligoc haetes, leeches and Polychaetes, with hermit crab and Penaeus shrimps being rare. Invertebrate richne ss and diversity ranged from J'= 0.68-0.81 and H'= 0.74-1.45 respectively in Amansuri while that of Do mini were J'= 0.01-0.02 and H'= 0.01-0.03 respectively. The conclusion was that the freshwate r Amansuri Lagoon supports richer and diverse macrobenthic fauna than the brackishwater Domini La goon. Future reduction in invertebrate composition, richness and diversity would imply a c hange or deterioration in environmental conditions of the lagoon. Serious efforts should be made to step up environmental improvement measures in and around the Domini Lagoon in the light of the curren t ecological and socio-economic issues around the lagoon.


In the chick heart, sympathetic innervation is derived from the sympathetic neural crest (trunk neural crest arising from somite level 10–20). Since the trunk neural crest gives rise to sympathetic ganglia of their corresponding level, it suggests that the sympathetic neural crest develops into cervical ganglia 4–14. We therefore tested the hypothesis that, in addition to the first thoracic ganglia, the cervical ganglia might contribute to cardiac innervation as well.


PURPOSE: A nerve function inspection device is provided to improve the accuracy and reliability of an inspection process by using a standardized stimulator and a standardized stimulator fixing member. CONSTITUTION: A nerve system inspection device comprises at least one stimulator(10), a stimulator fixing member(20), and at least one blood circulation detection sensor(30). The stimulator stimulates a human body in order to inspect the nerve system of a human body. The stimulator is either a pressing machine or a vibrator. The stimulator fixing member clinches the stimulator on the hand or foot of the human body. The blood circulation detection sensor is arranged in the stimulator fixing member in order to sense the blood circulation of the human body.


The comments of Kazuo Sato and P. Garegnani indicate a technical problem in our original analysis. Its effect is to make it possible for reswitching to occur even though what Sato calls our capital-intensity condition is satisfied, provided that the factor price contours in question are quite similar in nature. Thus, as Sato notes, our condition only "definitely reduces the possibility of reswitching." Unfortunately, all this may be simply a minor exegesis of what is perhaps a trivial question. Let us explain that statement. Consider the standard case of a full-employment steady-state economy (constant population and labor force) in which alternative two-commodity indecomposable production systems are available. Assume that producers will choose the technique that is "most profitable." Conventionally, this is taken to mean that they will choose the productive technique that will provide the highest profit rate. For example, Luigi Pasinetti states: "Clearly, on grounds of profitability, that technique will be chosen which-for any given wage rate-yields the higher rate of profit" (p. 507). In a micro-economic context one would not quarrel with this proposition. A given investment in capital goods will be more profitable the higher the rate of return on the investment. However, at our highly aggregated (economy wide) level of analysis of the meaning of capital and the nature of the production function, this is not so obvious. At the heart of the Cambridge (England) criticism of neoclassical analysis is the proposition that capital in an aggregate sense can only be measured through the use of some pricing numeraire which itself is functionally related to the level of wage and profit (interest) rates. In this highly interdependent world (illustrated by the twocommodity indecomposable production systems under discussion), it is alleged that the straightforward neoclassical propositions break down because of the interrelationship between the value of capital and the profit (interest) rate. Unfortunately, the analysis upon which this conclusion has been based appears to have ignored the fact that at the aggregate level the phrase "more profitable" has an added dimension that is lacking at the micro-economic level. This added dimension is the opportunity to employ capital. In the models under analysis the rate of profit and the quantity (in value terms) of capital employed are simultaneously determined. Together, they explain the volume of profits per head associated with a given technique and wage-profit rate combination. Since net output per head for any technique is constant (at the level of the wage rate associated with zero profit rate), profits per head may be calculated by subtracting any wage rate on the factor price contour from the zero profit wage. We have done this for Sato's example (Garegnani's would do just as well) and the results are shown in Table 1. They are fascinating in that they indicate that at any profit rate the most profitable technique from the standpoint of profits per head is technique I. But, how important is this? Quite; in a macromodel that assumes 1) full emplovment and 2) that capital is used solely for the purpose of producing the commodities included in the model.' Together, these conditions imply that profits per head are a measure of the total profits associated with the use of any technique. This means that switching from technique I to technique II in Sato's example as the profit rate falls below .595 involves adopting a production system that yields


Purpose: The purpose of the study was to explore the applica tion of 3D stereoscopic visualization in the evaluation of patients with ab dominal aortic aneurysm treated with fenestrated endovascular grafts. Content organization A. Types of aortic aneurysms and aortic stent grafts B. Fenestrated stent grafting and its types of treatme n C. Diagnostic imaging for follow-up of fenestrated ste nt grafts (CT) D. Conventional 2D and 3D CT imaging reconstructions E. Generation of 3D stereoscopic visualization F. 3D stereoscopic visualization in comparison to 2D/3 D CT visualizations for assessment of fenestrated stent graft repair of abd ominal aortic aneurysms Conclusion (and teaching points) 3D stereoscopic visualization enhances the endovasc ular specialists' ability to accurately evaluate the treatment outcomes of fenes trat d repair of abdominal aortic aneurysms. This exhibits reviews: a. Fenestrated stent graft repair of aortic aneurysms; b. Potential value of 3D stereoscopic views for the as ses ment of treatment outcomes of fenestrated repair in comparison to con ventional 2D/3D CT imaging.


Electroencephalography (EEG) is the recording of brain electrophysiological activity, usually by electrodes placed on the scalp. The EEG signals contain useful information about the brain state, with specific states being associated with oscillations at specific frequencies (the so-called brain waves); hence, EEG signals are usually analyzed in terms of their frequency content. A notable example is the amplitude estimation of alpha waves (8-14 Hz). This paper proposes a model-based estimation approach, based on known physical properties of alpha waves, which allows enhanced robustness in presence of fast amplitude dynamics, as well as an automatic identification of possible artifacts or discontinuities in the alpha wave. The proposed method is illustrated in this paper with application to a clinical EEG signal, but it is particularly promising for wearable EEG applications, such as brain-computer interface (BCI), to name one, where no expert human supervision is available.


Atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide(CO2),which is one of the most important anthropogenic greenhouse gases,has increased significantly since the beginning of the industrial revolution.It is expected that further increase of CO2 will definitely result in a warmer climate with adverse consequences including rising sea levels and increasing extreme weather conditions.A reliable prediction requires an accurate understanding of the sources and sinks of the greenhouse gases.Compared to traditional methods based on ground-based observations,an approach that uses satellite remote sensing to detect atmospheric CO2 concentration has many other advantages such as stability,continuity,large-scale,as well as easily getting global spatial and temporal distribution of CO2.As the technology of satellite remote sensing is growing rapidly,a series of satellites,launched for detecting atmospheric CO2 concentration,including SCIAMACHY,GOSAT and AIRS,have been collecting a large amount of global CO2 concentration distribution data for many years.This paper gives analyses by comparing those satellite data among themselves in some parameter indexes and conducts validation by comparing those remote sensing data to the long-term global ground-based observation records.The results indicate that,among those three CO2 satellite remote sensing products,the SCIAMACHY data is systemically slightly higher than ground-based observations and limited in coverage,the GOSAT data is predominant in stability but inferior in systematic errors which is nearly 9ppmv on average lower than ground-based data,and the AIRS data,which is better than the aforementioned two satellites in both coverage and accuracy,whose monthly global coverage is up to 90%,the average error is less than 2ppmv(0.5%) from the ground-based observations and the correlation coefficient is greater than 0.9,can be able to better reflect the global distributions of atmospheric CO2 concentration.An investigation from satellite and ground-based observations shows that the global spatial distribution of CO2 concentration represent significant latitude distribution and land-sea distribution,and there is a significant seasonal variation in CO2 concentration that illustrates a peak most likely in April and a valley in August.


We investigated the effect of a major physiologic event, phagocytosis. on the ability of human neutrophils (PMN) to bind the synthetic chemotactic peptide, 3H-formyl-methionyl-leucyl-phenylalanine (3H-FMLP). We found that both latex and opsonized zymosan (OPZ) particles caused dosedependent suppression of 3H-FMLP binding and abolition of 3H-FMLP binding with concentrations of OPZ greater than 2 mg/mI. This 'particle effect was completely inhibited by incubation of PMN with 1 0 mM 2-deoxyglucose before. but not after. phagocytosis. The particle effect was partially inhibited (28%) by anaerobic conditions and CGD neutrophils. but not by superoxide dismutase. catalase. or oxygen radical scavengers. In addition. supernatants from PMN that had been incubated with OPZ caused 55% reduction of 3H-FMLP binding by fresh PMN. The effect of PMN-OPZ supernatants was inhibited by 1 mM phenyl-


The utility model provides a lubricating grease mediate with wheeled rotation of planet stirring hybrid system, including being in harmonious proportion reation kettle, mediation reation kettle center is equipped with the pivot, and the pivot top is run through mediation reation kettle top and is upwards extended, and the extension termination of pivot has reducing motor, and the upper portion that the pivot lies in mediation reation kettle's pivot is equipped with the top driving gear, and it has top driven gear to mesh on the driving gear of top, and top driven gear goes up the coupling has the top connecting rod, and the coupling has the back shaft on the connecting rod of top, and the coupling has the stirring blade on the back shaft. The utility model discloses utilize the wheeled kind of drive of planet, drive the pivot with original puddler by central pivot and change the wheeled drive rotation of planet into to self stirring vane design more extra long, the stirring range is big, utilizes the stirring vane rotation to reduce the resistance of blade in the mixed cauldron of grease, and simple structure convenient to use has improved the stirring range, has reduced mixing time, has improved production efficiency.


Abstract : For many years, rally-car drivers have been training military Special Forces in driving techniques that allow them to maintain high speeds on loose surfaces. The Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory has been working with rally-car drivers to gain a more complete understanding of their driving techniques and their knowledge of driving on loose surfaces. This study was designed to quantify anecdotal descriptions of dynamic changes in the road surface as a result of successive high-speed maneuvers on a loose-surface roadway. The two primary maneuvers tested both involve a controlled skid on unpaved surfaces: the straight-line brake and high-speed hard turn. Multiple tests of each maneuver were completed over the same section of roadway on two different types of loose surface. Test observations showed that, as a vehicle traverses a section of roadway in a controlled skid, the tires remove loose material and transport the material to a new location, thereby changing the tractive characteristics of the roadway. This change is amplified as successive vehicles traverse the same path. A significant increase in the surface traction coefficient is observed where material has been removed from the original surface, and a decrease in surface traction is observed where loose material has built up on the original sur-face.


Isotope dilutionand mass spectrometry were used in two independentlaboratoriesto determinecortisolin 15 plasma and serum pools used in the British and German national schemes for the external quality assessment of routine assays. For the concentration range 240-700 nmol/L, differences between the data obtained by the two laboratories were generally <4% but were approximately7% in two instances.The discrepanciesare nevertheless small incomparisonwith the bias observedfor many routineassays.


Resin composites are widely used as restorative materials due to their excellent aesthetical and mechanical properties. Posterior teeth are constantly submitted to occlusal stress and upon restoration require more resistant resins. The aim of this study was to analyze in vitro the wear suffered over time by restorations in resin composite in posterior teeth, by Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT). 30 molars had occlusal cavities prepared and were randomly divided into three groups (n=10) and restored with resin composite: G1: Filtek P90 (3M/ESPE), G2: Tetric N-Ceram (Ivoclar Vivadent); G3: Filtek P60 (3M/ESPE). Specimens were subjected to initial analysis by OCT (OCP930SR, Thorlabs, axial resolution 6.2 μm) and stereoscopic microscope. Specimens were submitted to thermocycling (500 cycles, 5-55 °C) and subjected to simulated wear through a machine chewing movements (Wear Machine WM001), projecting four years of use. After mechanical cycles, the specimens were submitted to a second evaluation by the OCT and stereoscopic microscopy. As a result, it was observed that 90% of the restorations of both groups had fractures and/or points of stress concentration, considered niches for early dissemination of new fracture lines. It was also found that G1 and G2 had more points of stress concentration, whereas G3 had a higher incidence of fracture lines already propagated. It was concluded that the G3 showed more brittle behavior at the masticatory wear when compared to G1 and G2.


Foreword. Preface: Making Teaching Public. Overview: Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. 1. Introduction. Bringing Teaching Out of the Shadows. 2. In the Classroom. Challenges and Opportunities for Learning from Teaching. 3. Beyond the Classroom. How One Teacher's Inquiry Can Influence Her Peers. 4. Beyond the School. How Teachers' Learning Can Advance the Field. 5. Knowledge Out of Practice. Using Technology to Build on Teachers' Expertise. 6. Conclusion. References. Index.


GPS/INS integration with uncertain dynamics modelli and uncertain measurement noise is studied. An exten interval Kalman filter is applied to such an uncerta integrated system, since the traditional extended Kalm filter is no longer applicable. The results of a compu simulation indicate that the extended Kalman filteri algorithm is consistent with the traditional extend Kalman filtering scheme, and is also effective for t nonlinear integrated system with uncertainty. Introduction GPS and INS systems have complimentary features can improve performance of navigation and give a hig reliable and accurate navigation solution. The Kalm filter has been applied to the integrated GPS/INS (e Cannon 1991, Da 1997, He et al. 1998). For a Kalm filter to be optimal, a main assumption is that the dynam model and noise statistical parameters should exactly known. This, however, is not the case in most pract situations. For instance, the variances of system noise measurement errors in an integrated system are often accurately known. The parameters in the dynamic mo may be uncertain due to several reasons, such as uns ION GPS '99, 14-17 September 1999, Nashville, TN 190 t t error characteristics of the inertial sensors (Titterton et a 1997), the linearization process of the observation mode changes in environmental conditions, Selective Availability (SA), aircraft manoeuvres, etc. The traditional Kalman filter can not deal with such situations with inaccurate dynamics and statistical parameters. The effects of system uncertainty on the performance of filter have been extensively studied by several authors For instance, Neal (1967), Koussoulas and Leonde (1986) investigated the effects of parameter uncertainty i dynamic models, and Heffes (1966), Sangsuk-Iam (1990 discussed the effects of noise uncertainty; Griffin and Sage (1969) and Lainiotis and Slims (1970) studied the influence of uncertainty in the parameters in both dynamic and statistical models by a sensitivity analysis approach Although robustness for some linear systems has bee investigated in the last two decades, robust Kalman filtering for uncertain linear systems is still an active research topic. Several approaches have been propos using the H ∞ criteria (Nagpal 1991, Xie et al. 1991). A new interval Kalman filter (IKF) developed by Chen (1997) has the same recursive structure as the tradition Kalman filter, escaping the additional computation required for the above H ∞ methods. On the other hand, the IKF has been shown to be better than some existin robust Kalman filtering (Chen et al, 1997). Since the measurement equations are nonlinear and also as t inertial system equations themselves are nonlinear, it i necessary to use an extended interval Kalman filte (EIKF) for the integrated navigation system. Siouris (1997) successfully applied the EIKF to tracking of an incoming ballistic missile system. However, noise uncertainty for the tracking problem has not been studie by using intervals. This paper is focused on the application of the interval system analysis to the integrated GPS/INS with uncertainty. The parameter uncertainties of dynamics model and the noise uncertainties are described by intervals, and the EIKF i established for the nonlinear integrated system.


Background: Recurrent disease remains a major problem for esophageal cancer. This study was designed
to evaluate the impact of localization of lymph node metastasis for tumor recurrence following curative
esophageal resection.
Methods: 273 patients undergoing esophagectomy for esophageal cancer between 2005 and 2014 at the
Department of General, Visceral and Transplant Surgery, University Hospital of Munster were included.
Tumor characteristics, treatment details, postoperative course and patients' outcome, including time point
and localization of recurrent disease, were analyzed retrospectively. The median follow-up was 46.3
months.
Results: Median overall and disease-free survivals were 22.7 and 13 months, respectively. Tumor
characteristics including presence and number of lymph node metastasis, and localization of lymph node
metastases, paraesophageal, perigastric and intra-abdominal, had significant impact on both tumor
recurrence (p<0.001, p=0.003, and p=0.001, respectively) and disease-free survival (p<0.001, p=0.001, and
p<0.001, respectively). Univariate and multivariate analysis confirmed tumor stage, lymph node metastasis,
G-, L- and V-category, and neoadjuvant treatment as independent predictors of tumor recurrence.
Conclusion: The tumor stage and response to neoadjuvant treatment remain the most important prognostic
factors. In addition, localization and the number of resected lymph node metastasis can provide important
additional information.


The results showed significant yield increase with fertilizer and water supply and significant yield reduction due to brown spot and leaf folder injuries. Inoculations yielded strong and significant differences in level of injuries due to brown spot and leaf folder. A significant increase of grain discolouration with brown spot was also seen. Per cent yield reduction due to brown spot and leaf folder ranged from 12 - 13.3 and 12 - 18.8, respectively.


Metal mining may have considerable impact on downstream
water and sediment composition. The rate and extent that
metals move downstream determine the magnitude and time
scale of downstream sediment contamination. Conversely,
the downstream metal content of sediments provide
important clues of sediment transfer.
To examine the downstream transfer of sediment-associated
metals, samples of bed sediments and suspended sediments
were collected from small streams draining an abandoned
hydraulic gold mine (sample location P1; Fig. 1; Fig. 2a-b)
and an active open cast copper mine (locations H1, H2, and
D1; Fig. 2c) in the Quesnel River catchment, BC, Canada.
In addition, sediment from a control site with no apparent
upstream contaminant sources was sampled.


A series of novel pyrazolo[1,5‐a]pyrimidines were designed and synthesized in order to find novel potent anti‐tumor compounds. The structures of all the compounds were confirmed by IR, 1H‐NMR, elemental analysis, and MS. Their anti‐tumor activities against cancer cell lines were tested by the MTT method in vitro. Compound 19 displayed potent anti‐tumor activity.


In the ontogenesis of the larval forms of C. pisiformis and C. tenuicollis, structurally morphological changes are clearly distinguished at 3 stages of development: 1) growth - from the moment of introduction, for 6-7 days; 2) organogenesis - from the 8th day in the cysticerci, the parenchyma is actively formed, the protoscolex is laid, the formation of which ends by 20-25 days; 3) maturation - from the 25th to the 35-40th day, maturation occurs, the formation of scolex completely ends.


Surface Plasmon Resonance(SPR) is a simple and widely used in highly sensitive surface optical sensing technique,and so far it can detect refractive index changes as small as 10-8(RIU).In order to realize such high sensitivity,stability and reliability,besides the hardware of the electro-optic system, the appropriate data analysis algorithm is essential.The data analysis techniques can significantly reduce the influence introduced by random noise or system imperfection,and the precision,accuracy and operating range are improved.Based on the recent research progress in the SPR signal analysis techniques,the procedures and algorithms of data analysis in the SPR applications for minute content detection and film analysis are presented.


One of the main problems faced by every investor/ project manager is the decision on selection of the investment project implementation variant [13], [14]. The difficulty associated with this issue emerges as early as at the stage of investment preparation, when the requirements and expectations of the investor are defined in the functional and utility program. At individual stages of the lifecycle of the undertaking, the phenomena analyzed are very complex, which is mainly due to the specific traits, characteristics, complexity and nature of construction processes and relations between them. On the other hand, a description of these relations, based mainly on expert opinions, should take into account both measurable and difficult-to-measure factors [17], and its quality depends largely on expert knowledge and experience of the decision-makers. The issue of decision-making constitutes an integral part of every field of science and art. The decision-making process is an activity, which results in making of a specific decision. The entity involved in the decision-making process is the decision-maker, expressing specific preferences, assessing the possibilities and results and choosing the final decision-making variant [2], [10], [13], [14], [15]. Analysis of the decision-making situation is the first task of the decision-maker. The decision-making situation is a set of all elements, which are dependent and independent of the assessor, which exert impact on the decision to be made. In the process of formulation of the decision-making problem, the factors independent of the decision-maker include the set of variants being examined (the so-called conditions restricting the decision), while the factors dependent upon the decision-maker include the criteria of assessment of solutions, described by technical and economic indicators, most adequate for a given decision-making situation, expressed in specific units [2], [10], [15]. Assessment of characteristics of a given variant may be both quantitative (objective) and qualitative (difficult to measure) [17]. The difficulty in decision-making is due not only to the level of complexity of the task, complexity and designation of the variants, but also the expectations of the assessing person. On the other hand, the preferences of the expert are largely dependent upon the point of view of the decision-maker, who has caused development of a given opinion or assessment. The authors believe that, due to the above reasons, computer-based implementation of calculation algorithms of the selected methods of assessment and ranking of solutions is an efficient tool, allowing for obtaining of aggregated variant assessments and making the decision-making process more efficient. Detailed information concerning the issues of valuation of criteria, as well as the psychological aspect of decision making has been presented in [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9], [10], [15]. An exemplary course of the decision-making process has been presented using the AHP method as an example [16].


In this techno-savvy world from sending letters to photos, transmission takes place digitally. Everything from text to images and videos are clustered in category called 'data'. Moreover organizations have sensitive data that is given to a data distributor. There is quite a possibility of leakage of the data by the agents and can be distributed in unauthorized place. This project describes the ways in which data leaked data can be detected and some ways to prevent the leakage of data where fake data can be injected in the system that appear to be realistic. The unauthorized user when try to access or download the document, the fake data file is downloaded instead of actual data file that seems to be realistic to the user. Algorithms describes the encryption and decryption of data using shared keys. The system also propose the ways to secure the data when the keys are mismatched or when wrong key is used to download the data. The organizations can implement these techniques to secure their sensitive data from the agents often the trusted third parties who share the data in unauthorized way.


Background: Partial body weight support treadmill training (PBWST) is a task-oriented gait rehabilitation protocol for hemiplegic/paretic patients with proven clinical efficiency. At the neurophysiologic level, motor-evoked potentials (MEP) induced by transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and recorded from target lower limb muscles may be used to assess the post-rehabilitation effects. Objective: Assessment of the effects of PBWST on the MEPs recorded from target lower limb muscles in chronic poststroke hemiparetics. Methodology: Thirty patients with post-stroke chronic hemiparesis were randomly allocated to one of 2 groups; PBWST group and conventional rehabilitation group. Initial evaluation included recording the MEP parameters from the quadriceps, tibialis anterior and gastrocnemius muscles. In addition, functional assessment tools included Fugel-Meyer assessment (FMA), functional ambulation category as well as Standing Balance Test. Endpoint evaluation using the same methods were obtained by the completion of 8 weeks of rehabilitation at a frequency of 3 times a week. Results: Both study groups have shown significant post rehabilitation improvement of most of the recorded MEP


Abstract The study focuses on the influence of home environment on psychomotor development of infants through stimulatory intervention on a sample of 145 male and female infants of age birth to 18 months from two villages, one of which served as experimental group and the other control group. A modified version of Home inventory by Bradley and Caldwell was used to know the home environment in addition to the Bayley's Scale of Infant Development (BSID) which was used to assess motor development of infants. Intervention focusing on aspects of home environment and developmental milestones of infants was provided to mothers of infants along with necessary stimulation to infants was provided to the experimental group while no such experience was given to the control group. All the infants were pre and post tested after the intervention period. The results revealed significant differences in home environment, motor age and psychomotor developmental indices between the experimental and control group infants. A significant association was also found between home environment and psychomotor developmental indices of infants.


We aimed to compare the pregnancy rate from 1stTAI and 2ndTAI performed 24 days apart and pregnancy between cows that showed or not estrous on the end of 2nd TAI protocol. Were used 190 lactating cows (Angus: 114; Brangus: 53 and Santa Gertrudis: 23). On the first day of synchronization (D0), insertion of a new CIDR® (Zoetis) plus the 100µg of Cystorrelin®(Merial) treatment, on D7 25mg of Lutalyse® (Zoetis) and CIDR withdrawal. 72 hours after CIDR removal 1stTAI was performed plus GnRH treatment. After 14 days from 1stTAI, all the cows received an one time used CIDR. The pregnancy diagnosis was performed 22 days after 1stTAI, using a subjective visual evaluation of CL blood flow (BF). Pregnancy diagnosis was performed by ultrasonography Color Doppler (MicroMaxx®). Cows with an area of CL≥3cm² and/or ≥25% CL BF were diagnosed as pregnant and underwent CIDR removal without further treatment. Those diagnosed as non-pregnant underwent CIDR removal and received one Estrotect™ (Rockway-Inc.), 25mg of Lutalyse treatment and submitted to 2nd TAI 48h after CIDR removal (D24) plus the 100µg of Cystorrelin. On D31 considered pregnant cows on D22 were examined by US B-mode D31 to verify false positive and effective pregnancies. On D55, cows were submitted to US B-mode to verify the 2ndTAI pregnancy rate. Statistical analysis were performed using GLIMMIX procedure from SAS. The pregnancy on D22 was 48.5% (87/190) and the false positives were 14.9% (13/87). There was no difference on pregnancy 31 days after 1stTAI (38.9%; 74/190) vs. 2nd TAI (32.0%; 33/103; P = 0.24). Cows were more likely to be pregnant on D55 compared to cows that: showed Estrous: 42.9% (21/49) vs. No Estrous: 22.2% (12/54; P = 0.03). In conclusion, the pregnancy rates were the same at 1st to 2ndTAI. And cows that showed estrous had more pregnancy at 2ndTAI.


In this chapter, the collaborative design, development, implementation, and evaluation of a new interdisciplinary course being offered by Syracuse University's School of Information Studies and School of Education are described. The course was offered to graduate students in response to the need to revise two master's degree programs at Syracuse University and in order to satisfy new state competency standards for certification as Educational Technologists and School Library Media Specialists. The course development process, course objectives, course content and activities, and the results of a formative and summative evaluation conducted by the researchers are included, as well as recommendations for future implementation, including distance delivery.


In this paper two major issues of Liquid Rocket Engines (LRE) are studied. The first one is dedicated to the simulation of supercritical fluids flowing inside small cooling channels. In a context of LRE, a strong heat flux coming from the combustion chamber (locally 80 MW/m 2 ) may lead to very steep density gradients close to the wall. These gradients have to be thermodynamically and numerically caught to really understand the mechanism of heat transfer from the wall to the fluid. A shock-capturing WENO numerical scheme, usually used with the perfect gas law, is then extended to real gases and applied to the simulation of an academic channel flow configuration. The second configuration corresponds to a supercritical injection following Mayer's experiment: a transor super-critical nitrogen is injected into a warm nitrogen. The preliminary results show a dense vortex detaching from the main jet and persisting in the low-speed and light region which is unusual for subcritical flows.


In order to solve the traditional network monitor management system fault detection of slow problem,adaptive differential of high false alarm rate we built network monitor system model combined with the artificial immune principle.Through artificial immune "self" and "non-self" recognition ability network monitoring algorithm simulated the matching,negative selection,memory mechanism of artificial immune system detection of network fault.Throughout the design process,we studied the biological immune characteristics,antibody affinity and concentration of concepts the antibody selection probability algorithm was proposed.The algorithm enhanced new antibody generation mechanisms,memory mechanism the and tolerance of the system to establish the network monitoring system provides the theoretical model.


Affective text based mining of social emotion deals with new aspect for categorizing the document based on the emotions such as victory, sympathy, love etc In order to predict the emotion contained in content a joint emotion–topic model is proposed by augmenting Latent Drichlet Allocation with an additional layer for emotion modeling. Using this it first generates a set of latent topics from emotions, followed by generating affective terms from each topic. It first generates an emotion from a document-specific emotional distribution, and then generates a latent topic from a Multinominal distribution conditioned on emotions. The proposed model utilizes the complementary advantages of both emotion-term model and topic model and also it includes more websites for creating a large vocabulary. Emotion-topic model allows associating the terms and emotions via topics which is more flexible and has better modeling capability. For each emotion, a meaningful latent topic can be generated effectively and also based on emotions, song recommendation will be available for user with advantage of user uploading and enjoying their own choices also.


For millimeter wave image having a lower resolution and a lot of noises,edges are partly lost to a certain extent or contaminated severely by noise.In this paper,a new edge-preserving self-snake model for the millimeter wave image de-noise is presented.The edge stopping function which is approximated to zero around fine structures and is close to one in the interior of homogeneous regions is constructed with the non-local gradient having maximum peak only at edges and good tolerance for noise.A discrete algorithm for proposed model is given with upwind differential scheme.The quantitative evaluation of performance is also defined.In visual quality and the performance of ENL(Equivalent Number of Looks) and edge definition,the experiment results show that this algorithm is better than conventional self-snake model,and feature-preserving nonlinear anisotropic diffusion.


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Many descriptions of paralarval and juvenile cephalopods are poor. By using DNA barcoding, a global bioidentification system for animals, along with morphological investigation, we can confirm species identifications. We have a better chance of eliminating misidentifications and, therefore, documenting the correct abundance and distribution of cephalopods within an area by combining morphological and molecular evidence. The central objectives of this study are to: (1) compare morphological vs molecular identification of cephalopods and (2) determine the occurrence of cephalopods within the deep scattering layer (DSL) within warm core eddies. The specimens reported here were collected between 2014 and 2016 during three transatlantic cruises from Galway, Ireland to St John's, Newfoundland, with a focus on assemblages in warm-core mesoscale eddies on the western part of the transect. Samples were collected from the DSL at multiple stations across mesoscale eddies. In total, 301 cephalopods belonging to 29 species were collected. Not only does our study increase the knowledge of abundance and diversity of pelagic cephalopods in this area, but it also provides sequences for species for which no comparative sequences were previously available. By examining the match/mismatch between morphological and molecular identifications, we highlight a need for revisions in some taxonomic groupings such as the family Cranchiidae.


There were no Dark Ages in the old acceptance of the term. The culture of the few was in the Middle Ages finding acceptance by the many. And from Augustine to Luther the imperial ecclesiastical power was the bearer of that culture to the masses. From the time of Charlemagne onward, the school and university were important centers of growing enlightenment. The authority was so sure of itself and was so linked with the learning of the past that speculation was free and daring to an extraordinary degree. Nevertheless the basis of life was an external authority. The thought of the period was free only within the bounds of a closed system. Nor was the limitation felt, because the closed system and the external authority were accepted by all, or nearly all, much as obedient children accept the authority of father and mother. Even when the authority of the moment was disputed it was always in the name of the imperial ecclesiastical tradition against which none thought of 161


Objective To investigate the levels of specific urine growth factors in interstitial cystitis (IC). Methods ELISA was used to determine levels of epidermal growth factor (EGF), insulin-like growth factor 1(IGF1), insulin-like growth factor binding protein 3 (IGFBP3) and heparin binding epidermal growth factor-like growth factor (HB-EGF) in urine specimens from women with IC and in asymptomatic controls. Results Urine HB-EGF in IC patients was (2.17±0.21)ng/ml and that of asymptomatic controls (6.59±0.97)ng/ml( P 0.01).Urine EGF, IGF1 and IGFBP3 levels were all significantly elevated in IC patients as compared with asymptomatic controls ( P 0.01). Conclusions The changes in the levels of urine epithelial cell growth factors are associated with IC. HB-EGF level is significantly decreased in the urine of IC patients and might be useful as a diagnostic marker for IC. This might be helpful in the understanding of the pathogenesis of insterstitial cystitis.


Objective To assess the incidence of glove puncture during oral surgical procedures.Methods We collected and analyzed the punctures from a total of 3789 gloves in 252 surgical procedures from March to October 2008.Each surgical procedure was divided into three modules,namely,(Ⅰ) administration of the anesthesia and raising of mucoperiosteal flap,(Ⅱ) bone removal and delivery of tooth root,and,(Ⅲ) soft tissue repair.Ressults The puncture rate of gloves and detection rate of gloves puncture in 3789 gloves were 9.2%and 13.1%,respectively.The incidence rates of glove puncture were significantly higher in procedureⅠ(P0.05) and proudureⅡ(P0.05) than that in procedureⅢ.The incidence rates of glove puncture in the left hand and the right hand were 29.8%and 15.0%,respectively.Left hand(the nonworking hand) gloves in procedureⅢshowed higher incidence of puncture than right hand gloves(P0.05),especially in the index fingers.Conclusions To prevent cross infection, the medical staff should beware of glove puncture during oral surgical procedures.If is suggested the surgeon might wear double gloves in the nonworking hand during the surgical procedure.


A promising method for diagnosing defects in the channels of firearms barrels, in particular, their erasure, providing for the use of measurement information about the ballistic elements of the shot, is considered. The application of this method should be based on the use of a data Bank on the ballistic elements of the shot, corresponding to the serviceable state of the barrel channel and different degrees of manifestation of its erasure.
The purpose of the article is to obtain a mathematical description of the bore profile in the presence of areas of abrasion and to develop a mathematical model of the shot taking into account this defect.
A mathematical description of the trunk channel profile in the presence of its partial removal based on trigonometric and polynomial functions is proposed. A mathematical model of the shot is developed, which takes into account the loss of part of the energy of the powder gases due to their break between the walls of the barrel and the projectile in the presence of areas of erasure of the barrel.
An improved mathematical model of the shot was tested by simulating the shot process taking into account attrition using a numerical method. Based on the results of modeling, curves for the ballistic elements of the shot for different firearms samples were obtained in the presence of erasure of the barrel channel in various parts of it, and their analysis was carried out.
It is shown that the location of the erasure area of the barrel bore and the degree of manifestation of this defect can be identified by the nature of the curves for the ballistic elements of the shot.


Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) has been proposed to overcome the limitations of traditional send/receive based communication protocols like sockets. The immense potential of RDMA to improve the communication performance while being extremely conservative on resource requirements has made RDMA the most sought after feature in current and next generation networks. Recently, there are many active efforts to enable RDMA over IP networks and fabrication of RDMA-enabled Ethernet NICs. However, the performance of RDMA over IP networks has not been quantitatively evaluated over WAN environments yet. In this paper, we evaluate the performance of RDMA over IP networks with the Ammasso Gigabit Ethernet NIC while emulating high delay WANs and varying load on remote node. We observe that RDMA is beneficial especially under heavy load conditions. More importantly, even with a high delay, RDMA can provide better communication progress and requires less CPU resources as compared to the traditional sockets over TCP/IP. Further, we show that RDMA can support high performance intra-cluster communication while providing a unified communication interface for interand intra-cluster communication. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first quantitative study of RDMA over IP on a WAN setup.


An approach for continuous daytime cloud classification system through satellite images is presented. The system is based on spectral ratio values as input features and a modified version of probabilistic neural network (PNN), named Quick PNN (QPNN), as a classifier. The use of spectral ratio values makes the system more efficient in detecting the minor changes in cloud spectral properties, leading to better classification capability. The modification to PNN consists of shrinking the hidden layer which is accomplished by performing K-means clustering on the training data of each class separately. Thus, for each class, instead of presenting all the training data samples in the hidden layer nodes, only the means of the resultant clusters are presented. The training data and the class labels are derived through the generation and interpretation of ratio images. The application of the approach to Meteosat-8 images has shown the separation of eight classes, including low clouds, middle clouds, high clouds, areas of high water vapor, sea surface, and land. The average accuracy of the system is 87.15% with a range of 84%-91% for the cloud and area of high water vapor classes, 93% for sea surface class, and 85% for land surface class. The computation time of the classification mode, including image ratioing and QPNN operations, is less than 1 min, which is good for continuous cloud classification and monitoring. The approach can be adapted to any multichannel satellite sensor only by using proper combination of ratio images.


The Ion Beam Deflection provides the following potential advantages over other asteroid deflection systems. Like the gravity tractor, it doesn't require despinning of the asteroid. Unlike the gravity tractor, it provides a significantly higher coupling force that is independent of the asteroid size. The concept could be tested as part of the baseline Asteroid Redirect Robotic Mission. The thrust and total impulse are entirely within the design of the SEP vehicle. The total impulse is potentially competitive with kinetic impactors and eliminates the need for a second rendezvous spacecraft.Gridded ion thrusters provide beam divergence angles of a few degrees enabling long stand-off distances from the asteroid. Mitigating control issues. Minimizing back-sputter contamination risks


To compare the use of interlinear hiatus in Sophocles's and Seneca's Works is very informative. Not only does the study of this phenomenon highlight its stylistic value, but it also reveal that the two poets made opposite choices in the use of prosodic devices: il the average practices of interlinear hiatus are quite similar, one can nonetheless note diverging uses like that of interlocutory hiatus or of the hiatus after a «narrow enjambement».


Effective distributed application performance management infrastructures are based upon the collection and management of key performance metrics including resource utilization, workload and service measurements. Without application oriented transaction service measurements, the viability and long term usability of the client/server paradigm for mission critical applications is in question. The Application Response Measurement (ARM) Application Programming Interface (API) addresses this requirement by enabling the measurement of transaction level metrics, notably response time, for distributed applications through application code instrumentation. Version 2.0 of the ARM API includes the ability to measure and correlate response time components on different processors (i.e., clients and sewers). ARM Agents encompass the software components responsible for interception and processing of the ARM API calls including support for response time measurement, collection and communication. This paper introduces alternatives for several important design aspects of ARM agent software that are not specified in the ARM standards documents. In particular, we consider the architecture of ARM Agent software, correlator generation and communication, and ARM data storage. We propose, implement and analyze the performance of several alternative designs. This work provides an assessment of ARM instrumentation impact on application response times as well as insights into the design issues involved. We first provide a general overview of the ARM 2.0 API and features. We then consider alternative ARM agent software designs. Next, we present measurements results for several design implementations that shed light on the overhead involved with instrumentation and the developed designs. Finally, we present conclusions and a description of future work.


Ant The study of global diversity patterns has been restricted to a few groups of organisms belonging to vertebrates or plants. Yet, insects represent the vast majority of living species. Our comprehension of biodiversity patterns, the processes that underpin them, and the future prospects for biodiversity, is thus largely incomplete. Here, we present the global diversity of the most diverse group of social insects, ants, with over 14000 described species. We compiled distribution data from over 7700 publications, which combined with museum records represents the core of the Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics (GABI) database. This work represents the first global assessment of the distribution of a diverse group of insects. The compilation of over a million records of ant species distribution allows us to solve important questions in biodiversity and conservation such as the identification of main diversity and endemism hotspots, or the importance of biological invasions across the world. Finally, I will briefly introduce some of the possibilities offered by this database in the study of social insects ecological and evolutionary questions. GABI will represent an important new tool for ant research and provide guidance for the development of global database for other insect groups as well.


Recently, the photo-induced radical reactions have emerged as a hot research topic in the field of organic synthetic chemistry. Among these, the radical acylation reaction via photocatalyst is one of the most effecient strategy to prepare ketones under mild conditions. The recent progress on the photo-induced reactions of acyl radical, various acyl radical sources and its application in the organic synthesis is summaried.


The objective is to carry out an analysis of the productivity of the distribution process, in the company DICONSA in Villahermosa Tabasco, for the generation of a proposal for improvement. This research will address topics of interest on the productivity of the distribution process, of the company DICONSA that is responsible for supporting both urban and rural communities. Productivity is a topic of great interest within the business sector, since based on it; The future of any company depends on the application and its use within the organization. Productivity indicators are essential to really know what state an organization is in. The research method is descriptive, since it was made from documentary research of primary and secondary sources of information. It will contribute with a diagnosis of the situation of the company and a model of improvement for productivity, within the company DICONSA located in Villahermosa, Tabasco.


Turbulence promoter was used to enhance filtration process in microfiltration of the TiO2 suspension using ceramic membranes.The influence of configuration parameter of turbulence promoters on enhancement process was evaluated.The appropriate turbulence promoter was helical turbulence promoter and its configuration was obtained as follows: the rod diameter 2 mm and the pitch 20 mm;the enhanced mechanism and the effectiveness of the turbulence promoter were also investigated.The results show that the flux is increased by using such method.


Femtosecond photoexcitation experiments have been used by many groups to investigate ultrafast scattering processes in semiconductors. Information on intervalley scattering rates can readily be deduced by monitoring valley populations in real time, and particularly, a number of groups have made measurements for (Gamma) -L and (Gamma) -X intervalley scattering in GaAs. However, due to the direct gap, the L-X scattering in GaAs can not be directly monitored. Recently, experiments to monitor the X valley population in indirect AlGaAs have been performed, and utilized to set up an upper bound for the L-X scattering lifetime. We have used an ensemble Monte Carlo (EMC) technique to calculate the evolution of valley populations in indirect AlGaAs illuminated by a femtosecond pulse laser. The time evolution of electron populations in the (Gamma) , L and X valleys is studied by varying the intervalley coupling constants. The L-X intervalley deformation potential is found to be DXL equals 1.5 +/- 0.5 X 108 eV/cm.


Detecting similar instance is a research hot spot of Example-Based Machine Translation.The method of Vector Space Model is one of the mainstream detection methods. However, thereare two disadvantages for it: detection speed is very slow and synonym substitution is not accurate.To solve these problems, fingerprint retrieval algorithm is introduced to improve the detectionspeed. A concept of replacement cost is put forward to measure the accuracy of substitutionbetween synonyms. The result shows that this method can not only improve the detection speed butalso produce a certain improvement to the accuracy of the similarity calculation.


During this time the source was observed to be highly variable in both IBIS/ISGRI and JEM-X. Three flares were observed during this observation, respectively on June 16, 17 and 23. The strongest was the last one (detection significance of 30 sigma in both instruments), with maximal fluxes reaching ~92 mCrab in 3-10 keV, ~120 mCrab in 10-20 keV, ~110 mCrab in 20-40 keV and ~80 mCrab in 40-80 keV. A cutoff power law fit to the 3-200 keV spectrum obtained during the first 12 hours of this flare leads to a spectral index of 1.91 +- 0.03 and a cutoff energy of 98+-16 keV (90% confidence level). The flare on June 23 was also observed by the BAT of Swift at the 7.5-sigma level (see Bacodine notice from Swift from 23 June 06, 16:06:34 UT). In the energy interval 15 - 150 keV a flux of ~3.6E-2 photons/(cm² s) [~2.3E-9 erg/(cm² s)] was measured, with a power law spectral index of 1.9 +- 0.4 (90% confidence). Simultaneous ground-based observations were also performed at optical and radio wavelengths. Since the source seems to remain active further observations at all wavelengths are recommended.


Composition and enforcement steps of precision agriculture technology were expounded. Enforceable feasibility and fields of precision agriculture were analyzed, according to present situation of farm production in Sanjiang plain. It has actuality significance to it's expansion in land reclanation region and all country that precision agriculture technology was enforced Sanjiang plain at first.


An amplifier according to the principle of load modulation (30) has a first push-pull transistor (49), a second push-pull transistor (36) and a symmetrical hybrid coupler (40). The first push-pull transistor (49) is connected as the main amplifier and generates a symmetrical main amplifier signal (61). The second push-pull transistor (36) is connected as auxiliary amplifier and produces a symmetrical auxiliary amplifier signal (59). Outputs of the first push-pull transistor (49) and the second push-pull transistor (36) are so connected to the balanced hybrid coupler (40) such that the symmetrical hybrid coupler (40) (the main amplifier signal (61) and the auxiliary amplifier signal 59 ) combined according to the principle of load modulation to a balanced output signal (62).


A theoretical analysis enables effects generated by the magnetic core anisotropy of an induction motor to be determined qualitatively. Relationships formulated between currents and magnetic flux linkages that are associated with three-phase stator windings enable the qualitative determination of spectra of currents or voltages of a typical induction motor. These relationships account for nonlinear and anisotropic magnetization characteristics of the motor core, both during idle running and motor starting. Based on these relationships, components of the amplitude Fourier spectra of symmetrical components of currents or voltages, which are useful in the diagnostics of stator or rotor core anisotropy, were selected. Field calculations were performed for the core of a two-pole 5.5 kW motor supplied by three-phase sinusoidal currents. The components of the induced voltage Fourier spectra in both the idle running and short-circuit state were similar to analogous components predicted based on theoretical studies. The components occurring in the spectra, which were obtained based on field calculations, were distinguished in the measured spectra of the symmetrical components of the phase currents. These components were applied to estimate representative current signal levels in the diagnostics of motor core anisotropy. Relative values of these signals did not exceed 60 dB; however, they were significant for assessing the internal asymmetry level of the motor stator or rotor core. The results of laboratory measurements confirmed the results of the theoretical analysis.


Combination lock for luggage, furniture od. The like., With rotating number wheels (1) on which a code secret of the combination lock can be adjusted, a locking piece (28), the ingestible between its adjusted at the number wheels (1) Key secret release position, in which a opening the combination lock is possible, and its locking position in which an opening of the combination lock is not possible, is adjustable, and locking means (31) connected to locking devices (32) of the number wheels (1) are brought into engagement, in which (at a multifunction spring 26) which (with the latching means 32) of the number wheels (1) the engaged locking means (31) and at least one spring arm (27) are formed by means of which the locking piece (28) is biased towards its release position, and wherein the locking piece (28) perforations (29) of the number wheels (1), with its surface against the partially flattened Ausenumfangsflac hen of clutch discs (3) of the number wheels (1) is applied and is disposed above the multi-function spring (26), characterized in that a rotationally fixed manner on the number wheels (1) curve sections ...


Though several of the articles in the volume do have some obvious connection there is an overall lack of coherence. Several articles lack internal structure, appearing to start and stop randomly, with no signposts for the reader. Though several articles will no doubt be of great value for scholars working in Boiotia and in other related fields of Greek history or language (in particular I note the articles by Migeotte, Levin, and Fossey), this lack of internal structure throughout the volume remains very offputting.


The self-properties of transverse slots in the broad wall of inhomogeneously loaded rectangular waveguide are computed using an integral equation moment method formulation, and compared to measured values. Results are also presented which show that transverse slots in inhomogeneously loaded rectangular waveguide can be used for antenna arrays which will not have grating lobes in their radiation patterns, and will not suffer from the same distribution taper limitations as similar arrays of homogeneous waveguide transverse slots. >